Van Rossum at the 2008 Google I/O Developer's Conference Van Rossum at the 2006 O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) Guido van Rossum (Dutch: [ˈɣido vɑn ˈrɔsʏm, -səm]; born 31 January 1956) is a Dutch programmer best known as the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the "benevolent dictator for life" (BDFL) until he stepped down from the position on 12 July 2018.[4][5] H
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